Omniscient, Ever-Loving, Jesus! John 13:1

Text:“Now before the
feast of the Passover, when Jesus KNEW that His hour was come that He should
depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in
the world, He loved them unto the end.”

John 13:1.

Good morning Eternally loved
Christian!There is no other person who
is so utterly, and Eternally blessed, as the Spiritually regenerate Christian
believer.We are totally loved with a
Divine and everlasting love.Hallelujah!

“The Lord hath
appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting
love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.”(Jeremiah 31:3)

“Beloved (Christian
believers) let us love one another; for love is of God; and everyone that
loveth is born of God, and knoweth God (intimately).He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God
is love.In this was manifested (clearly
proven) the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son
into the world, that we might live through Him.Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent
His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”(1 John 4:7-10)

Our one-verse-Bible-reading
for today is small, yet it clearly reveals a number of profound aspects of the
Divine nature of our Sovereign and our Saviour - the Living Christ Jesus.There is power in one verse of Scripture.

Christ had prior knowledge, or
foreknowledge of events to come.He had
Divine foreknowledge of the time of His Crucifixion.He had Divine foreknowledge of the death of
His human nature.Supernaturally, He
knew exactly where He was going after being put to death in human form.Yet, praise God, He was also Divinely certain
that ‘…having loved His own (the
Divinely elected souls that would be saved) which were in the world, He (would)
love them unto the end (Eternally)!Hallelujah!What a Divine Saviour
we have in Christ Jesus!We who are
saved, are Eternally loved.

Christ’s Prior Knowledge: The Lord Jesus Christ did not originate at Bethlehem, only the human
nature of Jesus was born there in an act of incarnation (I.e. God being born in
bodily form)(Hebrews 10:5)

In other words, while the
fully human Jesus was indeed born in that stable at Bethlehem - the Christ, the
Son of God, God the Son, has always existed in the Eternal realm; therefore,
had and continues to have prior knowledge of all future events.

“Then said Jesus
unto them (the Jews), Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”(John 8:58)

Christ’s Crucifixion:The Lord Jesus knew
the exact hour of His Crucifixion: “Jesus knew that His
hour was come…”He would be ‘…Lifted up…’ on that cruel
Cross, to suffer as our Substitute and the Redeeming Lamb of God which ’…taketh away the sin of the world…’(John 8:28)

“...and I, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men (the ‘…whosoevers…’) unto Me. This He
said, signifying what death He should die.”(John 12:32-33) (John 3:16)

Christ’s Predetermined Death:Christ Jesus, being God of very God, had come
to fulfill the predetermined counsel of God His Father.The only purpose for His coming to us in
human form was to die on the Cross to make the way of Salvation; for all who
would be granted faith to believe the Gospel and be saved.Jesus already knew the reason for His
suffering and death!

As Peter cried on the Day of
Pentecost: “Ye men of Israel, hear these
words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and
wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, as you yourselves
also know; Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have Crucified
and slain; Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death; because
it was not possible that He should be holden of it."(Acts 2:22-24)

Christ’s Everlasting Love:The Lord Jesus Christ loves His people with an Eternal love that can
never die or be quenched - not even by ourselves!

“Who (or what?)
shall separate us from the love of Christ?Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword? (Or deadly Corona Virus!)… nor death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
come…height…depth…nor any other
creature (including ourselves!), shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”(Romans 8:35-39)

Wow!Hallelujah!What a Saviour we love and seek to serve!Glory to the Worthy Lamb! Today, in April 2020, amid an international and deadly plague, when many are dying all around us, and many more of us will die - we who know Christ Jesus as personal Saviour and Lord, are Eternally loved. 'Even so, Come Lord Jesus! We are born again and ready for Your coming, or for death, that will only escort us into Thy Holy Presence forever, hallelujah!' Amen.

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Author:

Dr. C.K. McClinton Ph.D.

BA (Hons) MA: PhD; D. Litt.

Pastor of

Ulster/American Christian Fellowship Ministry

Northern Ireland (Ulster) UK

KENNY McCLINTON was one of the most feared men in Northern Ireland (Ulster). His years of terrorist activity culminated in two life sentences for murder and other acts of terrorist violence. He had become a thorn in the side of the authorities. Even in prison he could not be tamed and found himself in solitary confinement punishment cells fifteen times within one nine month period.